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harsh. At last, seeing that the flock was becoming more a)\d 
more diflicnlt to approach, and having very little more time at 
my disposal, I shot the lighter-coloured bird, which proved to 
be a llose-colonred Pastor, a male only a few months old. The 
stomach contained some small beetles, a few worms, and a con- 
siderable number of small gnats. 
A bird so unattractive in appearance as this species in the 
plumage of its first autumn might very easily be overlooked, and 
I have no doubt that in this state it has more than once been 
thrown aside, under the supposition that it was a light-coloured 
Starling or a young Thrush; nor is it before a side-by-side com- 
parison is made that an inexperienced observer becomes fully 
aware of the difference. In first year’s Starlings, however, 
the feathers upon the front of the head extend no further than 
the posterior margin of the nostril, while in both my specimens 
of the Eose-colonred Pastor the feathers extend some distance 
beyond, partly occupying the depression above the nostrils — a 
distinction which seems to hold good at all ages. The following 
descri^Dtion of the Eose-coloured Pastor, in the plumage of its 
first autumn, was taken before the skin was removed : — 
Whole length, . . . . . 8| inches. 
Wing, from carpal joint to tip, . . . ,, 
Bill (measured along the upper ridge), . . 8| lines. 
Tarsus, ...... 1 inch. 
IMiddle toe and its claw, . . . . ,, 
Tip of upper mandible dusky brown, the remainder of the 
bill yellow. Eye reddish brown. Eorehead and top of the 
head light dingy brown, each feather centred with darker; cheeks, 
ear-coverts, back, and scapulars rather paler than top of head ; 
upon the lore a few small scattered black feathers. Tail feathers 
liglit brown, with still jtaler edges. The whole of the wing 
featliers, including both sets of coverts, dingy brown, edged 
with soiled white. Chin and throat white ; breast and front 
of neck white, tinged with brown, each feather darker in the 
centre. Abdomen white ; under tail-coverts white, mottled 
with several shades of light brown. Tarsi and feet light reddish 
brown, paler than those of the starling, and more slender in 
